Asus Maximus Formula, 'Crazy' Voltage.

[xerstead]

I bought an Asus Maximus Formula motherboard in Nov/Dec last year. It has been working with no problems untill recently.
Now on powering up, the voltage warning lights on the motherboard light up to 'crazy' voltage and stay on.
The fans then all spin up to max.
The PC does not POST or beep at me. I have needed to hold the power button to power off.
When this started it took a couple of tries to get it to boot, now it can take 10 or more atempts. Once started the PC works fine and is stable.
I have tried resetting the CMOS, removing the RAM, Graphics card, Sound card and DVD drive. This had no effect on the problem.
I had not made any recent hardware changes when the problem started. I don't think it'll be a PSU problem as everthing it stable after booting and I expect it would have fried the board if it was throwing out too much power.
I'd left the bios settings as standard. With the exception of the RAM voltage which i'd changed by 0.1V and changed the timings to 4.4.4.12. both as recomended on the box. (My motherboard had defaulted to 5.5.5.12. timings.)
I had also set the motherboard to auto overclock to run my Q6600 as a Q6800 which i changed back after the problems started although it had been working fine for 4 months.
Is there anything else you'd recomend trying? or is it in need of RMA'ing?

Asus Maximus formula SE.
Intel Q6600, with Zalman CNPS9700 NT Cooler.
2x1Gb Corsair 800 Mhz DDR2,
OCZ Extreme Gamer 600W,
nVidia 7900GT
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude,
2 x 320Gb HDD Raid0,
Vista Home Premium 32.

[trt740]

I bought an Asus Maximus Formula motherboard in Nov/Dec last year. It has been working with no problems untill recently.
Now on powering up, the voltage warning lights on the motherboard light up to 'crazy' voltage and stay on.
The fans then all spin up to max.
The PC does not POST or beep at me. I have needed to hold the power button to power off.
When this started it took a couple of tries to get it to boot, now it can take 10 or more atempts. Once started the PC works fine and is stable.
I have tried resetting the CMOS, removing the RAM, Graphics card, Sound card and DVD drive. This had no effect on the problem.
I had not made any recent hardware changes when the problem started. I don't think it'll be a PSU problem as everthing it stable after booting and I expect it would have fried the board if it was throwing out too much power.
I'd left the bios settings as standard. With the exception of the RAM voltage which i'd changed by 0.1V and changed the timings to 4.4.4.12. both as recomended on the box. (My motherboard had defaulted to 5.5.5.12. timings.)
I had also set the motherboard to auto overclock to run my Q6600 as a Q6800 which i changed back after the problems started although it had been working fine for 4 months.
Is there anything else you'd recomend trying? or is it in need of RMA'ing?

Asus Maximus formula SE.
Intel Q6600, with Zalman CNPS9700 NT Cooler.
2x1Gb Corsair 800 Mhz DDR2,
OCZ Extreme Gamer 600W,
nVidia 7900GT
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude,
2 x 320Gb HDD Raid0,
Vista Home Premium 32.

these X38 boards kill ram like a kid eats candy try a new set. It could also be a bad PSU or voltage regulator (if it's this it's rma time)

[xerstead]

I've tried booting with no RAM in the slots and still got the voltage overload warnings lighting up so doubt it's the ram. Was hoping there was somthing simple i missed. Voltage regulators sound likely though. I've sent a message to Scan's tech team this evening. Now waiting to hear what they have to say.

[blastboy]

these X38 boards kill ram like a kid eats candy try a new set. It could also be a bad PSU or voltage regulator (if it's this it's rma time)

You sure you dont mean 680i and 780i? I think they have a higher death count atleast.

mobo or psu

[philbrown23]

x38's do it to thats one of the improvements of the X48's ;)